On behalf of 3D Art Direct I'd like to announce TerraLive, a Terragen Online Conference which will take place on January 18th-20th 2013.
During this conference you can meet up with top of the bill Terragen specialists for tutorials and open Q&A.

Originally Posted by Walli:sounds interesting, Martin! Do you have more details, what topics are covered, especially the level would be interesting (beginners, intermediate,pro)

Thanks Walli.

The level will be mainly aimed at beginners, as there's little (official) documentation on actually using Terragen 2.
As Terragen is node-based there's a quite open-ended structure, allowing for extreme flexibility but also dauntingly many possibilities.
Therefore it would be very useful for people to actually understand how the structure and hierarchy inside the software works, rather than explaining what each node can do.

In the meantime there will be intermediate level sessions as well for topics like object instancing (populations of trees/bushes/etc.) and a volumetric cloud masterclass.

At the moment there are no advanced sessions planned as there's little demand for it compared to intermediate and especially beginner level sessions.

Terragen 2 is an amazing piece of s/w (not an user myself, just lurking on Planetside's forum) it's just too bad it has "opened" to the world with the .fbx format just recently. Sooner would have been better obviously, but now remains to slowly build on top of that.

Originally Posted by McNistor:Terragen 2 is an amazing piece of s/w (not an user myself, just lurking on Planetside's forum) it's just too bad it has "opened" to the world with the .fbx format just recently. Sooner would have been better obviously, but now remains to slowly build on top of that.

Yes it's both amazing software as well as too bad that 3rd party interchange-abilities only recently developed. Little resources and lots of possibilities/paths makes it difficult to prioritise for the development team I suppose.

Since the recent developments Terragen should become a more interesting tool as one can now more easily exchange camera, lights and geometry between the (Autodesk and others) applications.

In the future webinars like these could also cover Terragen <-> Autodesk and others workflows.

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